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What (besides not complying, and reporting) should I do with blackmail emails? [duplicate]
I received the following email which claims, among other social engineering, to have installed a keylogger on a former system administrator's Linux box:
I know [old password deleted] one of yo...
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Have gotten a blackmail email with a password of mine - what to do? [duplicate]
I've gotten the following email today (the password has been changed; and the Greek characters are reproduced verbatim):
Your ρasswοrd is REPLACED. Ι kηow α lot more τhngs about you τhaη τhαt.
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Email from a hacker with my password [duplicate]
I have received an email from a hacker saying he got my email account password.
The password showed in the mail is not my account password but is a password I use sometimes.
I checked haveibeenpwned ...
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How to safely "reply" to spam email? [duplicate]
I have received an email flagged as spam from Yahoo but it was strange since it contained part of my password. The email states that they know my password so I better pay them in BTC.
I think I had to ...
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Is this email legit or scam? [duplicate]
got this email on gmail spam folder was wondering if this is legit or not ..
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Have I really been hacked or am I falling for a phishing scam [duplicate]
I received an email on the 14th saying that a hacker has access to my pc it says that at the time of hacking my account ([email protected]) had this password (it was a version of my password but not ...
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Received email with password in the subject - To what extent have I been hacked? [duplicate]
I was cleaning out my spam folder, when I saw one with a subject line which had a little-used password of mine. 16 hours ago. I'm fairly sure odds of guessing this password are small, so I looked.
The ...
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Email supposedly from the future mentioning fairly recent password [duplicate]
Just got an email that mentioned, in very broken english, having hacked my email etc. and actually managed to list my current password of that email account. The mail was, apparently, send by that ...
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Received ransom email containing my password. How did they get my password?
Finally, even I got the fabled ransomware emails we've all heard about so much.
First, let's look at the facts before I get to my question:
I use Mozilla Thunderbird as my email client.
I was ...
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Is it possible to provide malware from a router?
I received a disturbing mail containing the password for my desktop computer account. In this mail the hacker stated that he used a vulnerability in my router with CVE: CVE-2020-1672.
After searching ...
